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Is Your AI Knowledge Layer Built for Healthcare?
Every AI vendor is building a knowledge layer. In healthcare it must carry permissions, local vocabulary, and evidence. Five questions to test any vendor.
Seven AI Questions to Expect From Your Board
Healthcare boards have watched big data builds deliver little. Seven AI questions boards are asking now, and what management should bring to each.
Trust in AI Is Earned in Installments
Trust in AI builds in installments, and each one makes a bigger ask possible. How health plans and health systems earn it.
AI Leadership: The Buck Still Stops With the Leader
AI has changed how healthcare leaders spend their time and make decisions, but the leader still owns the outcome.
AI Pilot to Program: Telling a Win From an Anecdote
A win nobody defined in advance is an anecdote. How healthcare organizations turn AI pilots into programs.
AI Ownership: Who Should Own the Number
Every AI initiative has a builder, but few have an owner for its value. How healthcare leaders approach AI ownership.

Healthcare AI Adoption: Trust Beyond the C-Suite
Healthcare AI adoption follows trust. Notes from our Health Evolution Connect panel on earning it at every level, from the C-suite to the front desk.
Full Measure: What It Takes to Get Real Value From AI
Healthcare organizations getting real value from AI agreed on what “working” means first. Lessons for leaders from In the Round 2026.
In the Round: AI’s Full Measure From Every Seat
Healthcare leaders meet at In the Round, Oct. 12–13 in Franklin, Tennessee, to take on what AI is worth from every seat.
Scaling AI Initiatives Without Relearning Every Lesson
Scaling AI initiatives in healthcare only gets faster when you write down what the first one taught you.

The ROAI™ Mindset
Stop funding AI like an experiment, running it like software, and judging it once, if at all.
It Only Takes 10 Minutes to Decide If Healthcare AI Pays Off
Most healthcare AI initiatives fail because nobody asks the right questions upfront. Three questions that decide value in ten minutes.
Healthcare Adopted AI as Fast as Everyone Else. It Just Can’t Say What It Got In Return.
Healthcare AI value can't be measured with software's metrics. Usage numbers aren't returns, and tasks completed doesn't fit a claims workflow.

Enterprise AI Doesn’t Have a Speed Problem. It Has a Measurement Problem.
Boards have stopped asking how fast. The real question is what enterprise AI is returning, and why speed alone can't answer it.
Intelligence Just Got Cheaper. Proving What You Do With It Just Got Harder.
Kimi K3 makes frontier-level AI cheap and ownable. When intelligence is a commodity, the edge is proving what you do with it.

The Real Reason Your AI Investment Isn’t Paying Off
A model that worked sat unused because no one treated the nurses’ trust as the project. Change management, not the tech stack, decides whether AI pays off.

What Healthcare AI Can Do When It Knows How You Work
Scaling healthcare AI takes more than better models. Organizational context is what makes AI compound faster and more precise with every initiative you run.

The Bottleneck Moved: Today’s Enterprise AI Value Problem
Is your enterprise AI ready in a day but stuck in a queue for a month? Why software delivery is now an architectural problem, not a coding one.

Bruce Broussard and Karen Lynch Lead a Group of Healthcare and Music Industry Luminaries Joining Optura as Strategic Advisors
The former CEOs of Humana and CVS Health join Optura as strategic advisors.

When Fable 5’s Premium Pays Off – And When It Doesn’t
Optura's engineers tested Claude Fable 5 across three demanding workloads to show exactly when its premium cost is worth paying, and when it isn't.

This Is What Happens When the Right Room Exists
What surfaced when women in healthcare AI leadership gathered in Nashville for an honest cross-sector conversation about AI, access, and what it takes to move up.

Rethinking Tokens in the Enterprise
Token budgets don't explode because of AI. They explode because the system around AI hasn't changed.

Optura Secures $17.5 Million Series A from Salesforce Ventures and Echo Health Ventures to Scale its ROAI™ Platform
Optura raised a $17.5M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures, with Echo Health Ventures joining Susa Ventures, Matrix and HC9.
Optura: the Enterprise Healthcare Platform that Delivers ROAI™
The Optura film: how the enterprise healthcare platform that delivers ROAI™ helps health plans and health systems fund, govern, and prove AI.

Healthcare AI Trust Starts in the Room
What building AI together does to the conversation healthcare has been avoiding, and what $200 billion in discovered value looks like in practice.

AI in Healthcare Doesn’t Scale on Anecdotes. Here’s What Does.
Healthcare's top executives have stopped funding AI stories. Optura CEO Andy Fanning on three themes defining healthcare AI ROI in 2026.

Optura Launches New Value Creation Division to Help Organizations Manage and Scale their AI Projects
Jon Hilton and Katy Feldner lead a new division built to help organizations scale what works.
The AI COE Leader Playbook for Healthcare
Build an AI COE that actually delivers.

From Strategy to Scale: How Healthcare Leaders Drive Real AI Adoption from the Top Down
ViVE 2026 in LA: leaders weren't asking what AI can do. They were asking why it isn't working yet. That's a better question.

In the Round: At the Rodeo
Different verses, same song.

In the Round: CEO Session
Where healthcare leaders drop the script.

Anthropic’s Healthcare Announcement Is Bigger Than Most People Realize
Anthropic’s move into healthcare raises the bar for good: AI will be judged on measurable outcomes and ROAI, not potential, and execution platforms will win.

In the Round 2026
Harmonizing perspectives around healthcare AI.

Scaling AI That Actually Delivers
The C-suite on the mindset, strategy and orchestration it takes to bring ROI to AI.

In the Round 2025
Building real-world momentum.

Why AI Might Be the First Thing That Actually Fixes Healthcare
From In the Round 2025: why AI might be the first thing that actually fixes healthcare, from the leaders working on it.

The Real Potential of AI in Healthcare
Optura on the real potential of AI in healthcare, and what it takes to turn pilots into measurable results.

How Healthcare Leaders Can Move Past AI Paralysis Into Production
From In the Round 2025: how healthcare leaders move past AI paralysis and get initiatives into production.

What’s Keeping Healthcare Leaders From Seeing Real Value From AI
From In the Round 2025: what keeps healthcare leaders from seeing real value from AI, and how to change it.

How To Combat AI Resistance in Your Healthcare Org
From In the Round 2025: how to combat AI resistance inside a healthcare organization, from leaders who have done it.

How To Get Leaderships’ Buy in on AI and Automation
From In the Round 2025: how to get leadership's buy-in on AI and automation, and keep it.

How To See AI’s Value in Your P&L
From In the Round 2025: how to see AI's value in your P&L, not just in a dashboard.

What If Healthcare Has Been Looking at the Wrong Problem?
From In the Round 2025: what if healthcare has been solving the wrong problem with AI? A C-suite conversation.

How Prime Therapeutics Built an AI Engine That Turns Ideas Into Action
Andy on the engine that takes an idea from a whiteboard to a measured result.

Is the AI Value Gap Really Widening?
BCG thinks the AI value gap is widening. Optura's CEO Andy Fanning weighs in on what this means for healthcare.

AI Told Him to Go to the ER and It Saved His Life
From In the Round 2025: a leader's story of AI telling him to go to the ER, and what it says about trust in healthcare AI.

Can AI Finally Fix Our Broken Healthcare System?
From In the Round 2025: can AI finally fix a broken healthcare system? The C-suite weighs in.

When AI Meets Inequality in Healthcare
From In the Round 2025: what happens when AI meets inequality in healthcare, and who it has to work for.

How Small Wins Build Big AI Change
From In the Round 2025: how small, measured wins build big AI change across a healthcare organization.

AI Can Change Care (If We Trust It)
From In the Round 2025: AI can change care if clinicians and leaders trust it. What earns that trust.

HC9 Ventures Invests in Optura to Accelerate “Return on AI Investment” (ROAI)
HC9 Ventures’ tenth Fund I investment, and its first in the ROAI category.

From Pilots to Progress: What Healthcare Really Needs from AI
A year ago, Optura was a conversation about something big coming to healthcare. It is here, and the gap between building AI and benefiting from it is where the work is.

Meet the Team Behind Optura: Healthcare’s AI Operating System
Healthcare builders, operators, and technologists who have sat in the rooms where decisions get made, pilots stall, and ROI falls short.

Optura Secures $6.5M to Launch an AI Healthcare Platform to Redefine Healthcare Efficiency
$6.5 million in seed funding from Susa Ventures and Matrix Partners, to end AI paralysis in healthcare.






